Sept 9, 1976 Sense and Nonsense The young people of today seem to have completely shed the shackles of superstition. Their forefathers tread much more carefully and often with a good deal of trepidation. They never crossed a black cats’ path nor walked under a ladder. If they spilled salt at the breakfast table, they…

August12, 1976 Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] The scene: a living room with various sized people watching TV.  Dad, Mom, Big brother, Bigger brother, Borrowed brother and Small sister are lazily lolling in the sunshine filtering through the living room windows. Enter: Aunt, Uncle, Small nephew and Very Small dog. Aunt: “Such a beautiful day!…

Jan 29, 1976 Sense and Nonsense (Nechako Chronicle) In the past few years there has emerged a brand new kind of pollution. Actually it has been around for a long time, but is becoming more prevalent. It is language pollution. A spade is no longer a spade but is more likely to be called a…

Sense and Nonsense [circa 1975] I have read that in the fish kingdom they do not have dental problems as we humans do. At least some of the larger fish do not. There are little fish swimming about which are appropriately named “Cleaner Fish.”All the big fish has to do is open his mouth and…

Apr 24/75 Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] Everyone is interested in dieting these days. Fat people collect diet plans like little boys collect hockey cards. Medium-sized people instantly cut out the goodies the minute they gain a pound. Even skinny people worry that they too may become fat overnight. Everyone agrees that being fat is…

The Good Old Days [Fraser Lake Bugle, 1981/82] Interview with Harvey MacDonald The Bluenose was built during the 1920s by two Swedes, Axle and Pete, for Bert Black and Dan Webster, two of the original partners in what would later be known as Fraser Lake Sawmills. (Merle Hartman was also an early partner in the…

The Good Old Days by Doris Ray [Fraser Lake Bugle 1981-82) For thirteen seasons Harvey MacDonald was the foreman of Fraser Lake Sawmill’s annual log drive on the Stellako River. The logs were floated from Francois Lake down the six mile, rough and tumble waterway to where the river flows calmly and sedately into the…

  Nov 28 1974  Nechako Chronicle “Sense and Nonsense” Recently I have heard some interesting stories about fish. The first thing I learned was a lot of them are not really fish at all. For instance the starfish is really an echinoderm and would be highly insulted if it knew that people referred to it…

The Good Old Days by Doris Ray [Fraser Lake Bugle Mar. 17, 1982] In the 1930’s the main source of employment was hewing ties for the railroad. Roy Foote was one of the local lads who headed into the bush with a broadaxe. “I hewed ties when I was sixteen. I made ties for Alf…

February 24, 1982 Archives of Fraser Lake Bugle: “The Good Old Days” by Doris Ray In the winter of 1919-20 the first moose ever shot in the area hung up on exhibition in the woodshed at Fred Braaton’s “bachelor restaurant” in Endako. The restaurant was located next to the railroad station, and the building was…